Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. I'm John Batser with Gordon Chang, my colleague and co-host and we're speaking with

former Naval Intelligence Officer Jim Finel.

He's in Switzerland, lucky fellow.

He's also the author of a new book.

I'm looking forward to embracing communist China,

America's greatest strategic failure.

However, we're looking at the strategic failure being righted by attention to the

geography of the Western Pacific and East Asia.

The Philippines, Jim. I'm looking at Luzon Island and Gordon introduced me to a deployment

of the U.S. Army anti-ship missile, a ferocious looking truck on Luzon somewhere anywhere on Luzon.

I also know that the US military has plans to base out of the Palawan Island in some fashion.

Palawan is the South China Sea.

So what was clearly an impenetrable problem

of the Okinawa Prefecture for the Philippines

is a suicide advance if China tries to break through.

Are they again practicing jaw-boding, Jim?

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